Congress has not yet approved EPA’s proposal to slash its budget by a massive 50%, yet the agency has *already* cut far more staff than in its proposal - 25% by EDGI’s count, and likely more by year’s end. EDGI’s @scoutblum.bsky.social and Chris Sellers explain: theconversation.com/trump-admini...

A print and play game about diversity in games I designed for the Playing Inside series!

An op-ed I did with Chris Sellers:

Proud to have been a small part of this report - many congrats to Chris Sellers for his thorough, hard work!

This is a great project and already generating some fascinating information from interviewees! If you are a federal employee in env'l, health, energy, climate work, please contact us!

Feedback: I asked game publishers how they plan to respond to newly announced U.S. tariffs, and here's a sampling of their responses: boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp... That post features only 15 of more than a hundred responses, so I'll post another round-up tomorrow. —WEM

I have a few masters level students who are looking for responses to surveys about games, so if you’re in the mood to fill out fun forms I’ll make a thread of them here! First one is about horror games: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

1/ Earlier this month, the Trump EPA announced it would cancel 100s of grants already authorized by congress. EDGI & @publicenvirodata.bsky.social have released a map highlighting the impacts of cancellations on #EnvironmentalJustice communities. Learn more here: envirodatagov.org/new-environm...

Truth 😬

Rising Waters has been reviewed in the American Historical Review! This is one of the flagship historical journals - so cool to see board games getting a place alongside other scholarship. doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

Are you a keen researcher and passionate about environment or wildlife investigations? Bellingcat is looking for wildlife and environment related investigations that use open source methods and tools. www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...

We have two openings left in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series this spring: April 7 & 28. Talks are at 4pm Central European time, but we move it to 10am if we have a guest from Asia/Australia. If you have a new book (2024 or 2025) that you'd like to present on one of these dates, contact me!

This is the introduction to an entire series that we co-published with @activehist.bsky.social on historians confronting climate change, which you can peruse here: niche-canada.org/tag/historia... #envhist #climhist #climatechange

Here is a great website, where you can put in your zip code and see what specific cuts in Social Security in your area Republicans are proposing and what that will mean for you specifically. democrats-budget.house.gov/house-republ...

Recommended read: A research librarian and policy scholar in North America outlined in @us.theconversation.com how to “find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see”. 📝 @ericnost.bsky.social Alejandro Paz

Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

We are looking forward to your applications!

Hey, everybody, I just wanted to let you all know that Tory Brown @downtowntbrown.bsky.social (designer of Votes for Women) will be on NPR's 1A program on Thursday at 11:20am (eastern time). the1a.org

People with less knowledge about #AI are actually more open to using it, challenging the assumption that tech-savvy individuals are the most eager adopters. Business professors explain the “lower literacy-higher receptivity” link – when people think it’s ‘magic’:

Teacher harassment is making headlines. It’s past time for school districts to address it. https://www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia/2024/12/23/malvern-teacher-tiktok-harassment-case-teacher-bullying-is-old-news/

“The first Trump admin altered or deleted numerous federal web pages containing public-facing climate information, according to monitoring efforts by the nonprofit Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, which tracks changes on federal websites.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

Coming up Monday 2 December 2024, 16:00 Central European time: Elena Kochetkova on Greenhouse #envhum book talk series to discuss The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press, 2024) Join us! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... #envhist

This #GivingTuesday level up education through the Center for Learning through Games and Simulations and CMich Press, where innovation meets education. Power the future of game-based learning & design: giving.apps.cmich.edu/fund/9100111. The first $1k donated will be matched $2 for every $1 given.

Proud to have worked with a great group of historians on this.

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about. 1) children's environmental attitudes in the 60s and 70s 2) a history of ideas abt Mars (spec w/environ ideas)

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about. 1) children's environmental attitudes in the 60s and 70s 2) a history of ideas abt Mars (spec w/environ ideas)